Villaescusa de las Torres lies in the province of Palencia, on the banks of the Pisuerga where the river meets the Camesa and enters the Cañón de la Horadada, beneath the spectacular limestone formations of Las Tuerces. Its small cluster of traditional stone houses includes several substantial casas solariegas, with timber-framed façades, balconies and carved coats of arms, giving the village a more distinguished architectural character than its size might suggest. The principal building is the Gothic church of San Juan Bautista, while the former Romanesque Ermita de La Tuda preserves part of a thirteenth-century structure. The surrounding land supports cereals, pasture and livestock, with the river and wooded slopes adding variety to the agricultural landscape. What makes Villaescusa particularly distinctive is its extraordinary setting: the village is almost enclosed by the strange, weathered limestone towers of Las Tuerces, while the nearby gorge, archaeological sites and old river landscape give this tiny settlement a remarkable combination of natural and historical interest.